Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean

Erich Kistler is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck and directs the long-term Monte Iato Project. He has led several third-party-funded projects and co-edited Sanctuaries and the Power of Consumption (2015). His work contributes to debates on materiality, colonial entanglements, and local agency in the pre-Roman Mediterranean. Christian Heitz is Senior Scientist at the University of Innsbruck. His research spans the Aegean Bronze Age to Imperial Rome, with a current focus on pre- and early Roman southern Italy. He specializes in social structures, gender, iconography, and material culture, and directs excavations at Ascoli Satriano. Birgit Öhlinger is a Mediterranean archaeologist whose research focuses on material culture, cultural interactions and entanglements, local agency and identity in pre-Roman Sicily. She is Senior Scientist at the University of Innsbruck and Co-Director of the long-term excavation project at Monte Iato. She co-edited the volume Sanctuaries and the Power of Consumption (2015). Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. He is a Mediterranean archaeologist studying cultural interactions, Indigeneity and colonialism in the Iron Age and Phoenician-Punic West Mediterranean. His research concerns migration, rural landscapes, and ancient agriculture, which structure long-term fieldwork and ceramic studies on Sardinia. He co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Mediterranean World book series.

• 1. Introduction: locality and agency in the Iron age West Mediterranean Peter van Dommelen, Christian Heitz, Erich Kistler and Birgit Öhlinger; Part I. Indigeneity and Locality: 2. Cambiare tutto per non cambiare niente. The production of locality in ancient Basilicata within and beyond the colonies Giulia Saltini Semerari; 3. What (who) is local in Iron age South Iberia? Beatriz Marín-Aguilera; 4. Crossing boundaries: the tomb of the diver and the Greek symposion Gabriel Zuchtriegel; 5. Colonial moments: the locality of Morgantina Carla Antonaccio and Tim Shea; 6. The production of locality in the Nuragic and Phoenician Sulcis district (SW Sardinia) in the late orientalizing period Carla Perra; 7. Building a new identity in Segesta between tradition and innovation: what the sacred contexts of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE tell us Monica de Cesare; Part II. Agency and Empowerment: 8. Good times for indigenous settlements in central West Sicily Stefano Vassallo; 9. Dynamic connections between Nuragic and Phoenician inhabitants of late iron age Sardinia Carlo Tronchetti; 10. The multiple productions of locality at Archaic Monte Lato (Western Sicily, 6th to 5th centuries BCE) Erich Kistler, Birgit Öhlinger and Martin Mohr; 11. Societies, power and identities in Mediterranean Languedoc (Southern France) in the early iron age (8th-5th centuries BCE) Éric Gailledrat; 12. Production of locality and empowerment in Mallorca (Balearic Islands) during the 8th-5th centuries BCE: a view from the margins Jordi Hernández-Gasch; 13. Power, ideology and identity in the 'Tartessic Southwest': the ritual context of the Aliseda hoard (Cáceres, Spain) Alonso Rodríguez Díaz; Part III. Practice and Production: 14. Households and communities in the early iron age of South-east Iberia Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez; 15. Textile tools, women's agency and the production of locality at Monte Polizzo. A study of weaving and society in iron age Sicily Christian Mühlenbock; 16. Tradition, mediation and cultural interaction: pottery for the preparation and consumption of food in Indigenous Western Sicily Francesca Spatafora; 17. Forging the ties that bind. Colonial connections and the power of place in west central Sardinia Peter van Dommelen; 18. The role of ritual and craft production in social interaction and elite empowerment in a mixed centre during the South Italian iron age Mario Denti; 19. Locality without colonial presence? Traditionalism and the use of foreign goods in pre-Roman Northern Apulia Christian Heitz; Afterword; 20. The iron age and Archaic period in the western Mediterranean: assessing the qualities of locality in comparative research Peter Attema.

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